In his latest novel, the American writer and film director John Sayles examines the treatment of the Native Americans in the late 19th, and early 20th centuries, as young Indians were ‘civilised.’
‘Educating the Natives’ Like most Americans, my initial and only knowledge of the Carlisle Indian School was in relation to Jim Thorpe, the star football player and Olympic athlete who was a student there in the early 1900s. I did a report in class on a young-adult...
